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dc.contributor.authorFlaig, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-04T15:30:07Z
dc.date.available2018-10-04T15:30:07Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-01
dc.identifier251051759
dc.identifier0f46302e-c9ea-4535-89a4-4d88f1faa1f8
dc.identifier85054186969
dc.identifier000451609100004
dc.identifier.citationFlaig , P 2018 , ' Yesterday's Hadaly : on voicing a feminist media archaeology ' , Camera Obscura , vol. 33 , no. 2 (98) , pp. 105-137 . https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6923130en
dc.identifier.issn0270-5346
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-4608-2091/work/80620733
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/16148
dc.description.abstractThis essay offers a feminist critique and correction of media archaeology. Media archaeology has developed over the last two decades as a historiographic response to increasingly advanced contemporary media technologies and, with them, changing accounts and archives of earlier analog media networks. Redressing the absence of an explicitly feminist media archaeology, the essay focuses on the medium of the gendered telephonic voice and the method of voicing. The former is inspired by the extraordinary prevalence of feminine voices deployed in media old and new, while voicing is inspired by Jacques Derrida’s turn from phonocentric presence to telephonic writing. The essay elaborates this concept of voicing by contrasting Derrida and other philosophers of voice with the desexualizing approach taken by media archaeologists, focusing on Wolfgang Ernst’s version of media archaeology as cold, timeless bachelor-machine. It concludes by turning to the digital resurrection of Thomas Edison’s phonographic female dolls by a no less gendered technology, an optical scanning system named IRENE (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.). Tracking “female noise” from Homer’s Sirens to Edison’s dolls, IRENE to Apple’s Siri, it argues that media archaeology should have as one of its essential conditions feminist critique. Media archaeology would do well not to repress this critique, considering the no less gendered fantasy of a neutral thinking of objects stripped of desire, a fantasy likewise voiced by Siri and her sisters, spokeswomen of neoliberal, digital capitalism.
dc.format.extent2123314
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofCamera Obscuraen
dc.subjectMedia archaeologyen
dc.subjectFeminismen
dc.subjectVoiceen
dc.subjectNoiseen
dc.subjectP Language and Literatureen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subjectSDG 5 - Gender Equalityen
dc.subject.lccPen
dc.titleYesterday's Hadaly : on voicing a feminist media archaeologyen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Film Studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1215/02705346-6923130
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2018-09-01


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